nix-gui VS xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

This is pretty close https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui

Nix based aiming at beginners. If it combines/works with https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui, then an amazing distro may be created. It would be user friendly, but also extremely powerful, allowing basically everything to be configured via the gui. Both softwares are alpha state, but I am excited to see what they bring.

Maybe https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui? I dunno if it can do userspace config though.

Would it make sense to integrate something like nix gui into this?

I remember when I first started using NixOS, as a confused beginner I tried to find a graphical application to manage and edit my configuration. I stumbled upon Nix-Gui, however, I didn’t really like the look, it crashed a fair amount, and I never really figured out how to use it. That said, their idea and all of the hard work they put into their project inspired me to make a similar application that focuses more on simplicity and ease of use.

I was wondering if you are aware of https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui and how your tool compares to it

There is also a GUI in development, hopefully it will help casual users in the future.

There's https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui for a gui like experience.

Configuration language usage: Probably a major win for programmers, but a major negative for non-programmers. However, nix-gui has shown that there's potential for gui-based nixos configuration. And this might one day be extended to use as part of the graphical installer. https://discourse.nixos.org/t/why-is-there-no-installer-for-nixos/16644/21. Since nix can be serialized and deserialized to json, there's actually a fair amount of interoperability able to be done to manipulate nix configuration using existing libraries.

I came across this, could this be playing a role? If it fixes Fedora 37 then it would be a clue and perhaps then the package could enter the string itself? https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk/issues/72

However, the actual dialogs and access points are provided by a backend, which differs from what desktop are you using. For example, Gnome uses xdg-desktop-portal-gtk, KDE uses xdg-desktop-portal-kde and so on.\ If there is an issue with the implementation of an portal, you need to find the backend you use and report it to them.

Is the Web search provider enabled in Settings? Those can apparently trigger background detection: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk/issues/293

That sounds like https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk/issues/137

gui-libs/xdg-desktop-portal-lxqt Available versions: 0.2.0 Homepage: https://lxqt-project.org/ Description: Backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal using Qt/KF5/libfm-qt gui-libs/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr Available versions: 0.4.0(0/9999) 0.5.0(0/9999) ~0.6.0(0/9999) **9999(0/9999)*l {elogind systemd} Homepage: https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr Description: xdg-desktop-portal backend for wlroots [I] kde-plasma/xdg-desktop-portal-kde Available versions: (5) 5.24.6 ~5.25.4 {debug} Installed versions: 5.24.6(5)(01:02:06 07/29/22)(-debug) Homepage: https://kde.org/plasma-desktop Description: Backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal that is using Qt/KDE Frameworks [I] sys-apps/xdg-desktop-portal Available versions: 1.14.6 {geolocation screencast systemd} Installed versions: 1.14.6(20:25:44 08/27/22)(-geolocation -screencast -systemd) Homepage: https://flatpak.org/ https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal Description: Desktop integration portal sys-apps/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome Available versions: 42.3 {X wayland} Homepage: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome Description: Backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal using GNOME sys-apps/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk Available versions: 1.8.0 1.14.0 {X wayland} Homepage: https://flatpak.org/ https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk Description: Backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal using GTK+ Found 6 matches

you still xdg-desktop-portal-wlr in sway for screen sharing. the purpose of the gtk portal on non-gnome setups is to pass through some gtk settings (e.g. fontconfig, aliasing, gtk theme) to flatpak apps. your gtk flatpak apps won't follow the system theme and fontconfig unless you have the xdg-desktop-portal-gtk installed. right now it's borked though see below for more details - https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/72686?project=1&string=xdg-desktop-portal-gtk - https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk/issues/360